2008/11/20 Vladimir Nesov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Here's a link to the paper: > http://wpcarey.asu.edu/pubs/index.cfm?fct=details&article_cobid=2216410&author_cobid=1039524&journal_cobid=2216411
This doesn't sound especially controversial to me. Clearly there are systems in the brain which control parameters of the body, such as heart rate and temperature, in the classical control theory sense. Feedback control is probably not just limited to these more obvious examples though, and regulates other psychological processes. It's not difficult to criticize trivial connectionist systems, such as MLP, where obviously there is no explicit control or regulation going on - merely an elaborate transformation from inputs to outputs. But in larger conectionist systems such as Edelman's Darwin automata there are parts of the system which control or regulate other parts. It could be argued that control systems are essential for scalability of a system without loss of coherence. There may not be any overall uber-controller in the brain though. If this were the case then cutting the corpus colossum would cause major psychological disintegration, which doesn't appear to happen. ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=120640061-aded06 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
